I disagree. This smells like a setup. Nobody inside the WH or with any real knowledge is going to leak this if true. This is probably some diversion to keep money and resources in Florida and not elsewhere. Drudge has simply become a useful puppet to leak stuff to and make sure it gets out.
Don't count on it. If Drudge weren't able to extract sensitive info from people in the know, he wouldn't have gotten as far as he has.
I meant it as a description of a liberal trick...if the Democrats SAY "Jeb might lose", "he's in trouble" (quoting a Zogby poll, which everyone knows can be skewed to reflect whatever the pollsters want), they may hope to plant that "Jeb=lose" in the voters' minds. I never implied this was a White House leak at all or that Drudge was anyone's mouthpiece. It might be a whisper campaign. "Jeb's in trouble" "He's going to lose" "McBride's the winner" in the hopes that this wish might become a reality at the polls.